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I was supposed to write about Latinx mental health awareness this week, but then the cheet’ hit the fan.
On Sunday, The Times published a story written by business reporter Sam Dean with the provocative headline “The man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.” It asserted that Richard Montañez, a former Frito-Lay executive who worked his way from being a janitor to the C-suite through sheer ganas and Mexican American ingenuity, didn’t actually invent the iconic snack.
Dean used “interviews with more than a dozen former Frito-Lay employees, the archival record and Frito-Lay itself” to support the story. He also reached out to Montañez on multiple occasions to get him on the record but never got a response. The Times stands by Dean’s reporting.
During his father’s time, the Dodgers broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. Now, Peter O’Malley is helping to internationalize the most American of sports by building baseball fields in Ireland, China, and Nicaragua and supporting baseball programs in Japan and other countries.
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Peter O’Malley is an internationalist. You can tell by the gigantic pictures of baseball diamonds he has constructed that hang on the walls of his office in downtown Los Angeles. There are blow-ups of fields in Nicaragua, Tianjin China, the Dominican Republic and Dublin, Ireland. In O’Malley’s perfect world, top-notch baseball would be played in every country and the “World Series,” would have a more literal meaning.
Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the Amazin’ Avenue podcast focusing on the Mets’ minor league system.
On this date back in 1957, Walter O’Malley met with officials from the city of Los Angeles and made the decision to go west, so the team asks a question familiar to any Brooklynite in Promote, Extend, Trade.
After that, they give updates on their Way-Too-Early Draft Special players of interest.
Next, Steve gives updates on our adopted CPBL/KBO/NPB teams, the Uni-Lions (CPBL), the LG Twins (KBO), and the Yakult Swallows (NPB).
Following that, the team discusses some Mets minor league roster news.
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When Eli Broad imagined the future of Los Angeles, he saw a thriving metropolis whose cultural and artistic resources matched the tastes, appetites and ambitions of its residents, and as one of its wealthiest, he was able to shape and finance his personal dream of what the city should be.
Grand Avenue, on the crest of the city’s former Bunker Hill, was perhaps his signature achievement. He helped pay for the Museum of Contemporary Art. He similarly financed the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and he built the Broad museum. Speaking at its opening in 2015, he declared Grand Avenue “the cultural center” of the city that “has become the contemporary-art capital of the world.”